Is the United States Gearing Up to Go Into Pakistan?
While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.
While it may be too early to tell whether Obama will follow through on his 2007 campaign pledge, it does seem like his administration is setting the stage.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.
Will Marshall | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
How severe a threat does the Taliban pose to America? Blithely assuming that they would never again play host to America's sworn enemies is not a risk progressives should be prepared to take.
Saad Khan | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
If the United States wants to win some hearts in Pakistan, its aid should go to organizations directly working for public health and education. It's time to engage with the common Pakistani.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media
Al Qaeda, apparently heedless of the recessionary downturn that's felled so many publications in the freedom-loving world, is currently publishing a pair of magazines. If print media doesn't die, it could kill you!
Sanjeev Bery | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
It is time to set aside the notion that U.S. drone missile attacks in Pakistan are some kind of secret.
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Islamist terrorist arrests across this country since last January run the gamut. White and black, young and middle-aged, single and married, homegrown and foreign born, and legal and illegal immigrants.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.
New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...
news.aol.com | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Pakistan squandered opportunities over the years to kill or capture leaders of the a...
William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Congresswoman Barbara Lee gained international acclaim for being the only member in Congress who courageously voted against the authorization of the use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
With no end in sight, the U.S. must realize the limits of intervention, both in tanks and treasure, and integrate the implications of their actions over the last 8 years into their policy towards the region.
AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
KABUL — Armed with an AK-47, an American contract worker said Wednesday he held off militants attacking a guest house in Kabul, allowing about t...
Posted 10.28.2009 | Home
On Tuesday night, Al Qaeda's media unit released a video of a sermon by Abu Yahya al-Libi, the terrorist group's star proselytizer. As Wired's Danger...
True/Slant | Michael Hastings | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
I try to avoid posts like this, weighing in with a strongly held opinion about something I have no first hand information of. The initial reports are ...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
Sunday's bombings, and those in August at the Foreign and Finance Ministries, prove that there is no victory in Iraq any more than there were WMD and ties to al-Qaeda.
TIME | Andrew Lee Butters Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 | Posted 10.27.2009 | World
For Omar Bin Laden, the fourth eldest of Osama bin Laden's 20 known children, the awful realization that his own father was a terrorist mastermind plo...
Gilles Dorronsoro | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Most do not join the Taliban for money, but because the Afghan government is unjust, corrupt, or simply not there; or the Americans have bombed their houses or shown disrespect for their values.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
Ken Guest has acquired his credentials as an expert on Afghanistan, its people and their struggles the old fashioned way -- by earning them.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 11.07.2009 | World